| 释义 |
high-headed, a. orig. U.S.
(stress variable)
[high a. 22 b.]
Carrying the head high; proud, arrogant.
1837Southern Lit. Messenger III. 86 One of them high-headed Roanoke planters. 1903W. B. Yeats In Seven Woods 43 And that high-headed even-walking queen. 1909R. A. Wason Happy Hawkins i. 10 The most obstinate, high-headed, bull-intellected thin-skin 'at ever drew down top wages fer punchin' cows. 1955W. W. Denlinger Compl. Boston 112 A dog cannot display a high-headed style without well laid back shoulders. |